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单词 imprison
释义

imprison

音标[im'prizn]

汉语翻译

vt. 使下狱, 关闭, 拘禁, 限制
【法】 关押, 监禁, 限制

词型变化:

名词:imprisonment 动词过去式:imprisoned 过去分词:imprisoned 现在分词:imprisoning 第三人称单数:imprisons 形容词:imprisonable 

词意辨析:

confine, imprison, jail
这些动词均含“监禁”之意。
confine: 指监禁或幽禁;也指任何使行动受到限制的行为。
imprison: 较正式用词,多指较长时间的监禁。
jail: (英国用gaol)多指审判之间的拘禁或对罪行较轻的罪犯的监禁。

英语解释:

动词 imprison:

  1. lock up or confine, in or as in a jail
    同义词:incarcerate, lag, immure, put behind bars, jail, jug, gaol, put away, remand
  2. confine as if in a prison

例句:

  1. A famous actor in a highly successful play was once cast in the role of an aristocrat who had been imprisoned in the Bastille for twenty years.
    在一出极为成功的演出中,一位著名演员有一次被选派扮演一名贵族。这位贵族被关押在巴士底狱已20年了。
  2. They don't usually imprison first offenders.
    他们通常不监禁初次犯罪的人。
  3. He was imprisoned for life.
    他被终生监禁。
  4. Many coal-miners were imprisoned in a pit accident.
    在一次塌方事故中,许多矿工被压在了井下。

详细解释:


im.pris.on

v.tr.(及物动词)
im.pris.oned,im.pris.on.ing,im.pris.ons
To put in or as if in prison; confine.
束缚;禁锢:关进或好象关进监狱;禁锢

来源:
Middle English emprisonen
中古英语 emprisonen
from Old French emprisoner
源自 古法语 emprisoner
en- [in] from Latin in- * see in- 2
en- [在…里面] 源自 拉丁语 in- *参见 in-2
prison [prison] * see prison
prison [监狱] *参见 prison

【引伸】
impris.onable
adj.(形容词)
impris.onment
n.(名词)

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